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A Better Approach to Supply Chain Segmentation?

ToolsGroup

This approach of focusing on the customer for supply chain segmentation can also be applied to inventory segmentation. In a blog earlier this year entitled What's wrong with ABC inventory classification? That is why this is called inventory management rather than inventory optimization,” he says.

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Supply Chain Segmentation: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

BlueYonder

Last month JDA teamed up with IndustryWeek and Altera Corporation to present a Webcast on the topic of supply chain segmentation titled: One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Altera’s Supply Chain Segmentation Journey to Profitable Growth. Featured Manufacturing Supply Chain'

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Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) – Part One

Arkieva

I pride myself on being an expert in designing and implementing Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning. There is no one-size-fits-all in your supply chain. For A-products we may define higher service levels and carry more inventory. The introduction of new products consumes capacity and requires inventory.

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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

ToolsGroup

Stage 3 is where firms coordinate their supply chain processes—shifting concentration from functional capabilities to end-to-end processing for more planning visibility across the wider chain. Build more resilient supply chain plans (e.g., Click below for a short white paper on optimizing E2E supply chains:

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My Biggest Mistake: Inventory Levels are the Thermometer for the Management of the Company

Arkieva

As a Phd in inventory optimization, I’ve started my supply chain career in adjusting inventory parameters with surgical precision. I was, and I still am passionate about applying statistics and advanced analytics to the supply chain domain. I’m still training supply chain experts on how to do this.

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

As I study research methods, and the market, I realize the lies I’ve spun for prior employers (Gartner and AMR Research) are untrue: The AMR Research Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics. In a nutshell, the research states there is a correlation between cost, inventory, and forecast performance. Just the opposite.

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Why Segmentation and Profitability Go Hand in Hand

BlueYonder

The conference format and size were just right to allow comfortable sharing of ideas and lessons learned about various topics from S&OP and supply chain planning, to inventory optimization and transportation. It was the general consensus of the group that there is value to be delivered from supply chain segmentation.

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